Charles W. Stenholm: “The position that I am for today is supported by the State of Texas. The State of Texas has already done that which the…”

“The position that I am for today is supported by the State of Texas. The State of Texas has already done that which the gentleman opposes today, because they believe it to be right for those who have been affected by the food stamp provisions. They support our version of this rule. It should not surprise anyone, though, because this is the same majority leader that was responsible for passing the farm bill in the Speaker's office and promising that we were going to have unlimited access to world markets, and then will not even bring up IMF funding or fast track funding. This is another backdoor attempt by the leadership of this House to gut agriculture in rural America, and let there be no mistake about it. We will not even have an opportunity to discuss the intricacies of the research and the crop insurance bill, because once this rule passes, with the mechanisms and the maneuvers that are going on in this rule, which the chairman of the Committee on Rules has already acknowledged a mistake was made last night and is going to attempt to correct it in just a moment, there are other mistakes in this rule today that can be corrected by going back up and letting the House work its will on a bill that the Senate has passed 92 to 8.”